<i>The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we may get a share of the revenue from your purchase.</i><p>Amazon; Business Insider/Mike Nudelman<p>This past week was Amazon’s Prime Day, where the giant site discounts over 100,000 items heavily …

A newly declassified CIA document reveals that the intelligence agency investigated the possibility that Adolf Hitler was alive in South America as late as 1955 — nearly a decade after World War II ended.<p>The document, which appears on the CIA's website, highlights a former SS soldier who told spies …

For the first time in decades, scientists have quantitatively tackled some of the primatologist's famous work on chimp temperament.<p>The wild chimpanzees at Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park are at the heart of Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking research. Now, for the first time in decades, behavioral …

Freelance photographer Rita Kluge treats the world as her oyster. Based in the beautiful beaches of Sydney, Australia, the German transplant travels the planet, committed to “capturing the ocean and all it has to offer; be it surfers, swells or marine wildlife.” Each bathed-in-blue, fascinating …

<b>The use of solar energy is expanding worldwide but the efficiency of silicon solar cells has made very little progress in the last few decades. Could perovskite solar cell be the answer to high-efficiency solar power?</b><p>Conventional solar cells today are made of silicon with power conversion …

Paralysed people could walk again instantly after scientists developed a brain implant which turns thought into electrical signals in the spine so that lost feeling can be restored after injury.<p>Currently people who break their backs or suffer a spinal trauma are unable to stand or move even though …

Scientific interest rolls in for a material that is more solid than steel and a better conductor than copper<p>The molecule is priceless but it is not a matter of cost – a few hundred dollars per kilo. The value lies in its potential. The molecule in question is called graphene and the EU is prepared …

Largest living primate joins three other great ape species on International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list, but pandas no longer endangered<p>Humanity has moved a step closer to wiping out our closest evolutionary relatives, with four of the six great ape species now listed …

On the eve of International Snow Leopard Day, there’s good news and bad news for the secretive big cats of Central Asia.<p>Secretive as they are, snow leopards are still dying at the hands of humans, according to a new report released today.<p>Poachers have killed at least 450 of the endangered big cats …

The competition received over 50,000 entries from 95 different countries. A panel of experts narrowed this down to a shortlist of just 100 photos, which will go on exhibition at the Natural History Museum on Friday before touring across the UK and internationally.<p>The overall winner was American …

Labs across the world have been competing to build “superhard” materials – and they are finally succeeding.<p>At the centre of our planet, the weight of billions of tonnes of rock pushing down from above creates crushing forces that are more than three million times the atmospheric pressure here on …

<b>The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded for the design and synthesis of the world's smallest machines. The work has overtones of science fiction, but holds huge promise in fields as diverse as medicine, materials and energy.</b><p>All grand endeavours start small.<p>This is especially true of …

It’s about half an inch long, a few millimeters wide and no thicker than a human hair, and it usually just sits there like a discarded strip of red cellophane — until a specific shade of green laser light strikes it.<p>Then the University of Warsaw’s new robot caterpillar shows what it can do.<p>It can …

Drill monkeys share a colorful feature with their cousin the mandrill.<p>Ever meet someone so charismatic you wonder: why aren’t you famous?<p>That’s how I feel about the drill monkey. I just "discovered" them, prompting this Weird Animal Question of the Week: So, what’s the drill? And where has this …